Boeing’s North Charleston, S.C. facility rolled out its first 787 Friday. The aircraft is scheduled to be delivered to Air India in mid-year (ATW Daily News, April 27).
Boeing Commercial Airplanes president and CEO Jim Albaugh told a crowd of nearly 7,000 employees and guests, “Today I welcome the South Carolina team into a small and elite fraternity—a fraternity of workers who have built one of the most complex machines in the world—a commercial airplane.”
The ...